Posts by butmonkeh

This is the end, Windows 7 and 8 friends: Microsoft drops support this week

Re: 2023 is the year of the Linux desktop /s

Bottles - does exactly what you need.

https://usebottles.com/

:)

Windows Subsystem for Android declared ready for prime time

Re: "Because we CAN!" (maniacal laugh)

Yeah, I was surprised too. The pen even registers pressure for thin/thick lines in Android drawing apps! :)

I'm running Fedora 36 KDE spin, wayland. Laptop is an Asus ROG Flow X13.

Re: "Because we CAN!" (maniacal laugh)

After getting Waydroid up and running with the Google Play Store, and arm app support on my Linux x86 laptop, I was very impressed with it. Touch / Pen input all working, arm games running great. I sat back, and admired it.

I haven't launched it again for a few months.

Apart from "Oh, that's cool".... I haven't found a use for it.

Laugh all you want. There will be a year of the Linux desktop

I've got a couple of games that will only reliably run in Windows, and I used to dual-boot Fedora and Win10 to accommodate those.

My laptop now only runs Fedora, and I play those games in my Win10 VM at pretty much native speed. With Virt-Manager / QEMU and passing the dGPU to the VM I then get the display back to my laptop screen with Looking-Glass (https://looking-glass.io/). Forza Horizon 4 runs at 60fps locked, on high settings - just as it did when I was dual booting. There are plenty of guides out there, if that's something you'd find useful.

Oracle VirtualBox 7.0 is here – just watch out for the proprietary Extension Pack

Re: TPM Support ?

TPM 1.2 and 2.0 are both present in the Linux version.

Android, iOS beam telemetry to Google, Apple even when you tell them not to – study

Re: Can we mess with them?

Have you looked at DNS66 (from the FDroid appstore). It sets up a local VPN connection to itself with a DNS filter list (default is the same as PiHole uses, but you can add your own) and allows you to specify your own DNS server too. It doesn't require root, but it will increase your battery use.

Browser tracking protections won't stop tracking, warns DuckDuckGo

Thanks for the heads-up about DecentralEyes - now added to my browser extensions along with NoScript, SelfDestructingCookies & CanvasBlocker.

I also run a Pi (Zero) with PiHole, but also run Unbound (local DNS Server) and pipe everything down a VPN (ProtonVPN).

On the mobile side, I have DNS66 (from FDroid) running the same blocklist as the Pi for when my phone is on 4g to prevent apps being able to phone home while away from the WiFi.

Microsoft nudges Windows 10 21H1 toward commercial customers

Re: Windows IS a virus

Interesting script, thanks! How would you compare it to:

https://github.com/Sycnex/Windows10Debloater

I'm pretty new to powershell, so sifting through the code wouldn't help much.

The 40-Year-Old Version: ZX81's sleek plastic case shows no sign of middle-aged spread

If it could do this 40 years ago...

If your -40 year old self could see these...

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL828EFFA2A42FBE22

Would your brain vent through your earholes? :)

Must 'completely free' mean 'hard to install'? Newbie gripe sparks some soul-searching among Debian community

Re: Yes. Hit meet nail head

I'd say try OpenSuse Tumbleweed. The installer is beautiful, it will let you select all the software *you* need in a distro (including DE - KDE / Gnome / Xfce / etc). Zypper (the package manager), and YaST (the GUI for using it) will inform you of any potential issues of installing something, and present you with choices of what to do, and the likely consequences of those choices.

The real beauty though is the BTRFS filesystem and Snapper tool to accompany it. Each time your system changes (installing software / updates, etc) you will automatically be able to roll your system back to before that, and it keeps a history of each change. So if you have a little tinker, and it doesn't work out, reboot, select that read-only snapshot, and boot. Then one simple command will take you back in time (sudo snapper rollback) . So something you tinkered with today doesn't work because of something you tinkered with last weekend - select last weekends snapshot, and you're away. Your documents / files / etc aren't removed if they were created after that point (and there are no multi-Gb 'snapshots' created), but the filesystem is journaled so it can keep track of what state the system has been in since you installed it (default keeps 100 snapshots before the oldest is deleted).

It's on the 'bleeding-edge' of the Linux world, but it's fast, stable, and so easy to roll back an update / install / tinker if something regresses / fails. It takes the fear of borking your OS away, and leaves you free to learn / tinker to your hearts content.

Day two – and Windows 10 October 2018 Update trips over Intel audio

Re: Windows is awful

I've been the same with Linux for years, trying it and finding one thing that i couldn't resolve, and gone back to Windows. Win10 was finally my breaking point, and now every device I have is running some flavour of penguin. The biggest hurdle was the chinese no-name cherry-trail tablet, but I got there in the end.

For me, switching up to 4.17.x kernel solved a lot of my wifi & sleep issues on cherry-trail. As for the scaling issues, there are scaling options in some distros, in the display options. Failing that xrandr command could help. On my 1366x768 tablet - "xrandr --output eDP-1 --scale 1.25x1.25 --panning 1708x958" gives me a much more 'roomy' desktop with smaller icons, menus, fonts etc. The exact opposite of your problem.

Keep trying.... it's worth it to be free, but it can be an uphill struggle.

If you drop a tablet in a forest of smartphones, will anyone hear it fall?

Very niche case here...

I live off-grid, so power usage is pretty much key to my computing needs.

I have a Jumper EzPad 4s ($100usd from gearbest). 2gb ram, 32gb eMMC, Atom Cherry-trail, 10" screen. It originally shipped with Win10, which oddly was 'genuine', but never found an update available in the 11 months it ran win10. I used to run Mint in a VM for doing online purchases.

Last month, I wiped it. Installed Mint 19, with kernel 4.17.x, and it's pretty solid now. Bluetooth keyboard, trackball mouse. It plays older games, browses the web securely, runs kodi linked to the TvHeadend server running on the Odroid C2 (raspberry pi-like device).

It has an m2 sata connector, and at some point i'll treat it to a 120gb m2 ssd.

I love this little thing, and judging from the prices of what have been released recently, it'll be my little work-horse for a long time to come.

Microsoft silently fixes security holes in Windows 10 – dumps Win 7, 8 out in the cold

Re: People in glass houses.....

My phone : Moto E

From XDA : The Moto E is a low end Android device by Motorola. The Moto E was launched in May 2014. The device features a 4.3" LCD display, with a resolution of 960x540. It's powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 dual-core 1.2GHz processor and 1GB of RAM

Android Version : 7.1.2

Android security patch level: 5 August 2017 (been busy, haven't grabbed latest updates)

AOSP?

'Exploding e-cig cost me 7 teeth, burned my face – and broke my sink!'

Re: 3000 mAh battery?

Just registered with El Reg to answer this.

A modest sub-ohm coil, which is common in this kind of setup, of .25ohm will draw ~20amps from an 18650 cell at 4.2v (voltage drop applies, so it will be less). I have parallel 2500mah 18650's (so 5000mah capacity, also lessens voltage drop), at 0.25ohm. My batteries last about 24hours before they reach 3.6v (which is the point i decide to change them).

It draws *much* more power than a cell phone, but at more sporadic intervals.

I think labelling someone a 'tool' for vaping with a method that suits him is a little unfair. Unfortunately, things went wrong for him. Having unregulated mech mods in the hands of people that don't understand ohms law, and amp limits of batteries isn't a good thing, especially when a hybrid mod is more prone to a dead short from a 'flat' 510 connector setup (as stated in previous comments).

If the the vape shop had sold him a box full of electronics to make him safer, none of this would of happened. If he'd learnt what he needed to to make his unregulated mech safer, it wouldn't have happened either. If some ruling meant that he couldn't get assistance from his local vape shop for fear of breaking the law meant the he injured himself, then that perhaps is the fault of the lawmakers.

Like this?

http://www.nitecore.co.uk/Shop/Products/Chargers/12990-Nitecore-UM10-Single-Bay-Charger.html

Charges from USB.....